Cool Marketing Thoughts

Excuse me for the title, but it is Greenpeace’s latest campaign that actually triggered it. Yes indeed. Not that we should try to switch to human gas to light up the house, but umm in one bizarre way or the other some guys at some agency came up with this plan to link ‘light shining out of one’s behind’ to ‘using energy efficient light bulbs’. Selling this to the customer on its own is a fairly nice accomplishment. It’s daring, down to earth and ok, I agree, the message is clear. I’m just not so sure about the wrapping. Up to you to decide…

Video: Greenpeace

Stunning 3D work for Orangina, not quite in the sense of the ‘happiness factory’ from Coca Cola, but (at least to me) a very competitve try to overtake it. Quote Todd Mueller, Creative Director/Co-founder, Psyop: “I guess it goes without saying that when you get the opportunity to spray Orangina all over the chest of a sexy bunny girl, you go for it. That was basically the motivation and creative charge throughout the production; raunchy naughty furriness. The agency FFL were amazing to work with and just kept pushing us to get furrier and naughtier. The production team at The Mill and Stink brought everything they had to the table and the results are phenomenal. Now that we are finished, it’s a bit sad to leave this crazy world behind. There’s so much more to find out about this forest and these sexy creatures.”

Orangina Naturally Juicy English version

Client: Orangina
Title: “Naturally Juicy”
Agency: FFL PARIS
Executive Creative Directors: Fred & Farid
Creatives: Michael Zonnenberg, Joseph Dubruque, Nicolas Lautier, Baptiste Clinet
Advertiser’s Supervisors: Hugues Pietrini, Marie-Laure Trichard
Producer: Robin Accard
Production Company: Stink / Psyop
Director: Psyop / Todd Mueller & Kylie Matulick
Executive Producers: Daniel Bergman, Sylvaine Mella
Producers: Richard Fenton, Mariya Shikher
Animation Director: Nicholas Weigel
Additional Design: David Chontos
Editing Company: Trim Editing
Editor: Paul Hardcastle
Post Production: The Mill
Producer: Stephen Venning
Telecine: Jamie Wilkinson
3D Producer: Pip Malone

… a good laugh to start your Friday. Check out this pretty funny commercial :) Totally worth a minute of your time.

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Check out this supercool commercial from Smirnoff. The concept might be a little abstract, the idea might be far-fetched, but the clip is awesome. I don’t know which agency came up with it, but I bet their budget was quite astronomous, if you look at the effects.

Video Link: Clearly Smirnoff

Hyundai sees things big. Really big. The latest campaign they ran in Belgium was one where consumers were challenged to get a hold of a dropzone mark to put at a location of their choice. If they were selected, they could open up a blog and people could vote on them. (a map of the participants is here). The ubercoolness factor here is that the car will be dropped by heli. Yeah, you read that right. A helicopter will come drop the car on your location. Talk about a ‘wow’ factor. Good way to wake up the neighbors on a quiet Sunday morning :-) If you think the creative directors of this clip have been watching Apocalypse Now too much, you’re right.

Video: Hyundai i30

Agency: Duval Guillaume Brussels, Duval Guillaume E
Account Team: Johan Parmentier, Peter Clijsters, Filip Van der Haegen, Annemie Verschueren
Creative Directors: Katrien Bottez, Peter Ampe
Copy: Tom Muysers, Peter Ampe
Art Directors: Louiselotte Brekelmans, Katrien Bottez
TV Producer: Bruno De Jonghe
Media Strategy: Davy Caluwaerts
Strategy: Davy Caluwaerts
Animations: Dave De Preter
Production Company: The Fridge
Director: Dirk Verheye
Producer: Tom Hameeuw
Post-Production Company: The Fridge
Website: Pieter Baert & Tim Elsen (webmaster), Stijn Dupas & Raf Thys (Development), Judith Vanderlinden (Testing)
Media: Guerilla, Internet, TV, dailies.

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